Martika - Toy Soldiers (Guitar Cover)

Excellent track and vocal work from, easily, the most talented member of that Kids Incorporated tv show. No, I didn’t watch it as a kid and I only became aware of it in the early days of YouTube. Anyway, I didn’t Leppardize this as there’s already some great guitar work from, I believe, Mark Leggett. I tried to capture that typical ’80’s’ clean tone so I used some detune effects in Logic to help. Still not quite how I would like it but I had to compromise a little in order to have the dirty sound I for the chorus and solos. But yeah, killer track and I think Martika is the only person to make that haircut look good... :P I use a Jackson DK2 Dinky from 2004 (I removed the tone pot and moved the volume over) into a Boss Me50 (where I get my tone) into a Palmer Pdi-09 (which simulated a mic’d up cab) into a Focusrite Scarlett into my computer running Logic Pro X (where I add a little EQ and Reverb). My headphones are purposely like that so they stay out of the way. The cable is very long. I’ll be uploa